Connect Great Question to Hermes
Give Hermes governed access to Great Question’s 132 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add Great Question to Hermes in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Hermes then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add Great Question to Runlayer
Great Question isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Hermes to Runlayer
Users add the Runlayer Plugin to Hermes by following Runlayer’s setup guide. Hermes reaches Great Question’s 132 tools through the Runlayer Plugin’s search and execute tools instead of listing each one.
Hermes setup guide - 3
Sign in to Great Question
Sign in the way Great Question requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use Great Question from Hermes
Great Question’s approved tools appear in Hermes. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
132 Great Question tools in Hermes
Runlayer policy decides which of these Hermes users can call.
Add interview moderator
Add a new interview moderator.
Add interview participant
Add a new interview participant.
Add interview screener Question
Add a new interview screener question.
Add study participant
Add a new study participant.
Add survey participant
Add a new survey participant.
Add survey Question
Add a new survey question.
Add survey screener Question
Add a new survey screener question.
Add unmoderated participant
Add a new unmoderated participant.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Hermes
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Hermes exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every Great Question call from Hermes passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Hermes as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Client hooks (available)
Capture supported prompts, reasoning, local and MCP tool calls, responses, and scanner decisions in real time.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can deny a tool call before Hermes runs it.
Block output after it runs (available)
Runlayer can block a tool’s output in Hermes and show a message in its place.
Redact output in place (not available)
Hermes cannot take masked output, so Runlayer can block a tool’s output but not mask it. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
In Hermes
- Hermes can replace blocked tool output with a message, but its after-call event is for monitoring only.
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